In times of change, or reaction, it’s worth accounting for what can be reversed, or likely won’t be.
So when we made our call for this Reversal issue, we wanted to be spun on our heads. And reformed, or rebutted, or recontextualized. Expecting all that, we never expected each instance of about-face, backtracking, transition, mirroring, and more found in this edition of Ninth Letter.
Consider each of these one-eighties of form, content, and spirit. Consider the prayer for pre-forgiveness for refusal to change, or the hunters seeking safety and pattern in each other, or the saints in the locked bathroom, or the old boy scout uniform. As they wind up or unravel or release, all thirteen works here revised our own expectations for reversal as we read them.
And as we read these submissions, sometimes many times over, our team of stellar editors often backtracked. They about-faced, they rebutted, and they reformed. This edition was not possible without their circuitous zeal.
—Zachariah McVicker, Web Editor
Poetry
Staff
Web Editor
Zachariah McVicker
Editorial Assistants
Aera Boateng, Victoria Gama, Tirza Garcia Olivares, Baileigh Hannah, Larry Johnson, Tiffany Macias, Elizabeth McKennon, Victoria Morales, Natalia Nunez, Amir Polk, Meredith Riggs, Camila Rodriguez, Emma Sales, Ella Schuch, Alexa Sutton, PJ Watson, Wei Yuxuan, Emma Westermeir
